tech

See also: Tech., tech-, -tech, and těch

English

Etymology

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

1. (informal) Technology.

   I can't understand all this new tech.

   • 2012, Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker, Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process

     Remember, something that seems straightforward to you can be very scary to people who don't have enough info or tech knowledge to provide a context or meaning on their own.

   1. Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.

      Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have too much power.

      Tech stocks are down on NASDAQ.

      Tech workers can earn big money.

2. (informal) Technician.

   He works as a lab tech.

   • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)

     A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.

3. (informal) Technique.
4. (informal, used in titles) Technical college.

   Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.

Derived terms

• agrotech
• biotech
• cleantech
• cytotech
• edtech
• fintech
• foodtech
• hi-tech
• high-tech
• histotech
• legaltech
• low-tech
• martech
• medtech
• paytech
• tech abuse
• tech support
• tech wreck
• tech-savvy
• techie

 

Related terms

• technology
• technological

Verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

1. (video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).

Anagrams

• Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• teg

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *(s)teg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲex/

Noun

tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)

1. house

   Synonyms: attrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb

Declension

Neuter s-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
Vocative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
Accusative	techN, teg	techN, teg	tigeL, taigeH
Genitive	tigeL, taigeH	tige, taigeH	tigeN, taigeH
Dative	tigL, taigL	tigib	tigib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• tech midchuarta
• tech n-óil
• tech n-othar
• tech othrais
• tech screptra
• tech sét
• tech talman
• teglach

 

Descendants

• Irish: teach
• Manx: çhagh, thie
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tech	thech	tech pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language